LHTAPTDA = Lift Heavy Things And Put then Down Again.
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@TomF Light, recreational rock climbing keeps my CTI at bay. I've had to take a two-month break and my right wrist is feeling it.
@debiatan Yeah, if I take a break from rowing for some reason (usually travel), my wrists say "hey - lazy fuck - get back on the torture machine."
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LHTAPTDA = Lift Heavy Things And Put then Down Again. Any strength exercise that uses the big tendons on the inside of your wrists. Weights, rowing, swimming, rock-climbing, etc.
CTI = Carpal Tunnel Inflammation. The tightness in your wrists after too much fine-motor work - typing, playing an instrument, etc. Also called RSI but let's be specific here.
Derp - only four options, so I missed the "never had CTI, but do LHTAPTDA" option, which would have been a useful "preventative" data point. Because I know you're all fucking nerds on here. Feel free to tick the first or fourth option according to vibes.
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LHTAPTDA = Lift Heavy Things And Put then Down Again. Any strength exercise that uses the big tendons on the inside of your wrists. Weights, rowing, swimming, rock-climbing, etc.
CTI = Carpal Tunnel Inflammation. The tightness in your wrists after too much fine-motor work - typing, playing an instrument, etc. Also called RSI but let's be specific here.
@TomF never had CTI, but I moved early to a dvorak-like keymap (bepo 18 years ago), generally (lightly) care about ergonomics of the work station ; and do LHTAPTDA, very recently, but not linked either.
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@TomF Potentially not a useful datapoint, but I started LHTAPTDA a few years ago and it completely fixed my lower back problems caused by being a professional chair user. Can recommend. Can't comment on CTI.
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LHTAPTDA = Lift Heavy Things And Put then Down Again. Any strength exercise that uses the big tendons on the inside of your wrists. Weights, rowing, swimming, rock-climbing, etc.
CTI = Carpal Tunnel Inflammation. The tightness in your wrists after too much fine-motor work - typing, playing an instrument, etc. Also called RSI but let's be specific here.
@TomF Honestly don’t know where this fits within your options, but I started getting mild wrist pain in my right hand about 17(?) years ago. I switched to a low-travel (for coding tasks) keyboard layout and switched to using the mouse with my left hand. That made it go away. I’ve since also taken up playing tennis regularly for the last 9 years. So far, so good.
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Derp - only four options, so I missed the "never had CTI, but do LHTAPTDA" option, which would have been a useful "preventative" data point. Because I know you're all fucking nerds on here. Feel free to tick the first or fourth option according to vibes.
@TomF I’m in the "never had CTI, but do LHTAPTDA" group. But LHT is relatively new, so I‘ll (baselessly) attribute lack of CTI to my eh “distributed hunt and peck” style. Think that lack of rigidity may be saving me.
Can’t recommend LHTAPTDA (with proper form) enough though.
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@TomF Honestly don’t know where this fits within your options, but I started getting mild wrist pain in my right hand about 17(?) years ago. I switched to a low-travel (for coding tasks) keyboard layout and switched to using the mouse with my left hand. That made it go away. I’ve since also taken up playing tennis regularly for the last 9 years. So far, so good.
@pmdj Yeah tennis doesn't count - it's not significant static weight, and it's fast movement for very short periods of time. I don't think it does any harm, but it doesn't "reset" those tendons the way LHTAPTDA does.
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LHTAPTDA = Lift Heavy Things And Put then Down Again. Any strength exercise that uses the big tendons on the inside of your wrists. Weights, rowing, swimming, rock-climbing, etc.
CTI = Carpal Tunnel Inflammation. The tightness in your wrists after too much fine-motor work - typing, playing an instrument, etc. Also called RSI but let's be specific here.
@TomF I regularly do rock climbing (bouldering), still I had CTI, what helped (i think), is switching mouse to the left (also got vertical one) and getting better keyboard (split and slanted) for more natural wrist position
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LHTAPTDA = Lift Heavy Things And Put then Down Again. Any strength exercise that uses the big tendons on the inside of your wrists. Weights, rowing, swimming, rock-climbing, etc.
CTI = Carpal Tunnel Inflammation. The tightness in your wrists after too much fine-motor work - typing, playing an instrument, etc. Also called RSI but let's be specific here.
Conclusions: I should run the poll for longer!
Still, it's interesting the number of people (7) who did feel like LHT helped. I also have two family members who it helped.
A while back I did a medical literature search, but found no relevant studies. Lots of low-strength stuff like yoga and walking (mixed results), but nothing on relatively high-strength activities.
I certainly think the 14 people who have CTI but have not tried it yet should try some variant of LHTAPTDA.
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Conclusions: I should run the poll for longer!
Still, it's interesting the number of people (7) who did feel like LHT helped. I also have two family members who it helped.
A while back I did a medical literature search, but found no relevant studies. Lots of low-strength stuff like yoga and walking (mixed results), but nothing on relatively high-strength activities.
I certainly think the 14 people who have CTI but have not tried it yet should try some variant of LHTAPTDA.
My theory (and this is just me making up bullshit) is that our hands are immensely strong because of our monkey ancestors. We're meant to be swinging from trees with them. Now, we've lost a bit of strength over the centuries, but they're still insanely strong.
When I row, the full force of nearly all the major muscles in my body go through those little wrist tendons, and they're... fine. They have never been the limiting factor. Crazy strength for such thin things.
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My theory (and this is just me making up bullshit) is that our hands are immensely strong because of our monkey ancestors. We're meant to be swinging from trees with them. Now, we've lost a bit of strength over the centuries, but they're still insanely strong.
When I row, the full force of nearly all the major muscles in my body go through those little wrist tendons, and they're... fine. They have never been the limiting factor. Crazy strength for such thin things.
But most modern people do not subject them to huge stress or swing through trees or lift heavy things. They write or type or play piano. The tendons barely move, and certainly not under any real stress. And so they get "sticky" in their sheaths, which causes inflammation, and that makes them stickier, and so on.
This is like how bones get disorganized if you don't stress them, and leads to things like osteoporosis.
You gotta "reset" them - teach them what their purpose is. Use 'em or lose 'em.
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But most modern people do not subject them to huge stress or swing through trees or lift heavy things. They write or type or play piano. The tendons barely move, and certainly not under any real stress. And so they get "sticky" in their sheaths, which causes inflammation, and that makes them stickier, and so on.
This is like how bones get disorganized if you don't stress them, and leads to things like osteoporosis.
You gotta "reset" them - teach them what their purpose is. Use 'em or lose 'em.
galaxy brain meme progressing from using cars to using public transportation to walking to swinging from lianas.
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@robertsmith well, I'm constantly cold (even in a home with a temperature of 68° F) so you have all my admiration!
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@ma_delsuc @mcSlibinas @calcifer
well, comp was a DOS command, but the joke is that COM[1-9] was the designator for the serial ports, and LPT[1-9] the one for parallel ports (the list of such reserved names also includes CON, AUX, PRN, NUL). They are basically the equivalent of the /dev/* stuff in Unix and similar systems, but they were first introduced in DOS when it didn't even have the concept of a directory so they're in the global namespace for files.
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@lysander @thatgiga @Uilebheist @marcoboh @matz
anche dop.rai.it dà lo stesso problema. Però esiste il DiPi https://www.dipionline.it/ che funziona (altra cosa però)
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@oblomov @mcSlibinas @calcifer
I guess COMP is some kind of DOS command...
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@ma_delsuc @mcSlibinas @calcifer
oh wow. So, do you want the joke explained? 8-D
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@Uilebheist@polyglot.city @thatgiga@mastodon.social @oblomov@sociale.network @marcoboh@devianze.city @matz@gts.matteozenatti.net
Se è questo https://www.dizionario.rai.it/ io lo vedo come raggiungibile ma con un certificato farlocco (🤡), e che comunque restituisce un 404 ovunque (🤡🤡)
Evidentemente tutte le risorse son state dirottate su quel santo del cazzo
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@Uilebheist @matz @lysander @thatgiga @marcoboh
gli è pure scaduto il certificato
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@oblomov @mcSlibinas @calcifer
I am !
never used DOS and barely Windows actually.
Even though, got my hand first on PDP-11 running RTX-11M (in 1978), got my personal ZX81 (in 1981!) were I wrote my first Fourier transform algo, Used RTX-11M, CP/M, Apple ][, Adakos (Bruker), VMS, CTSS (Cray), Unix (many flavors), Unice, Basic, Forth, Linux, MacOs 6 to 10, Android, e/os (in chronological order)... but no DOS ever.
